[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target/ppc/excp_helper: Take BQL before calling cpu_interrupt()

[Thomas Huth]

Since the introduction of MTTCG, using the msgsnd instruction
abort()s if being called without holding the BQL. So let's protect
that part of the code now with qemu_mutex_lock_iothread().

Buglink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1694998
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
---
 target/ppc/excp_helper.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/target/ppc/excp_helper.c b/target/ppc/excp_helper.c
index 9cb2123..3a9f086 100644
--- a/target/ppc/excp_helper.c
+++ b/target/ppc/excp_helper.c
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
  * License along with this library; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  */
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
+#include "qemu/main-loop.h"
 #include "cpu.h"
 #include "exec/helper-proto.h"
 #include "exec/exec-all.h"
@@ -1132,6 +1133,7 @@ void helper_msgsnd(target_ulong rb)
         return;
     }
 
+    qemu_mutex_lock_iothread();
     CPU_FOREACH(cs) {
         PowerPCCPU *cpu = POWERPC_CPU(cs);
         CPUPPCState *cenv = &cpu->env;
@@ -1141,5 +1143,6 @@ void helper_msgsnd(target_ulong rb)
             cpu_interrupt(cs, CPU_INTERRUPT_HARD);
         }
     }
+    qemu_mutex_unlock_iothread();
 }
 #endif
-- 
1.8.3.1